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Science & Health (page 117)

Salon covers science and health news through investigations, insightful reporting, commentary and analysis.

Working oil pumps against a sunset sky (Getty Images/imaginima)

The oil industry has a talent vacuum

Kate Yoder - Grist
Rapper Kanye West speaks during his meeting with US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 11, 2018. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Cops killed George Floyd — not fentanyl

Troy Farah
Jacob Chansley, also known as the "QAnon Shaman," screams "Freedom" inside the U.S. Senate chamber after the U.S. Capitol was breached by a mob during a joint session of Congress on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

When do movements become cults?

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/George Frey)

Boy Scouts sell land in assault payouts

Jordan Gass-Poore’ - The Revelator
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Heatwave hot sun (Getty Images/chuchart duangdaw)

Cities prepare for extreme heat

Christine Macdonald - The Revelator
Artist’s interpretation of the calcium-rich supernova 2019ehk. Shown in orange is the calcium-rich material created in the explosion. Purple coloring represents gas shedded by the star right before the explosion, which then produced bright X-ray emission when the material collided with the supernova shockwave. (Aaron M. Geller, Northwestern University)

Gamma ray pulse sweeps Earth

Matthew Rozsa
Smoke enveloping a man's head (Getty Images/davit85)

Does pot really make your memory worse?

Troy Farah
Dr. Temple Grandin speaks outside of the US Patent and Trademark Office on April 3, 2016 in Denver, Colorado. (Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Why visual thinkers will save the world

Matthew Rozsa
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Man Forced To Smile (Getty Images/ferrantraite)

Death to "Good Vibes Only"

Nicole Karlis
A long line of soda bottles in various flavors and colors (Getty Images/RapidEye)

Sugar isn't the sole cavity creator

Daniel W. McNeil, Mary L. Marazita - The Conversation
Protesters rally against a mask mandate, many showing support for US President Donald Trump, in Las Vegas, Nevada on August 22, 2020. (BRIDGET BENNETT/AFP via Getty Images)

Are conservatives really more heartless?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Rover on Mars (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

When Mars went through climate change

Matthew Rozsa
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Computer enhanced false-colour Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) of two mid-sagittal and one axial (cross sectional) sections through the head of a 46 year-old woman, showing structures of the brain, spine & facial tissues. Profiled features of the main part of the brain include the convoluted surface of the cerebral cortex, the corpus callosum, pons & medulla, structures of the brainstem, which are continuous with the spinal cord. The cerebellum, the centre of balance & coordination, lies to the right of the brainstem. (Getty Images)

What is "deep brain stimulation?"

Rachel A. Davis - The Conversation
Bacteria Lactobacillus in human intestine (Getty Images/nopparit)

Programmed bacteria make living material

Sara Molinari - The Conversation
Motion view of girl backstroke swimmers starting a race and entering the water together (Getty Images/Jonathan Kirn)

Was my swimming coach an abuser?

Kim Fairley
Grimacing businessman looking at computer screen (Getty Images/Westend61)

Why are security questions so dumb?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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(Shutterstock/DedMityay)

Alzheimer's may not be a brain disease

Donald Weaver - The Conversation
Colorized transmission electron micrograph of monkeypox virus particles (orange) found within an infected cell (green) (Getty Images/NIH-NIAID/IMAGE POINT FR/BSIP/Universal Images Group)

The monkeypox non-pandemic

Matthew Rozsa
Plastic bottles and polystyrene floating in sea (Rosemary Calvert)

Big Plastic pushes fake recyclables

Joseph Winters - Grist
A segment of Dakota fossil, mummified Edmontosaurus annectens (Kabacchi/Wikimedia Commons)

How to mummify a dinosaur

Troy Farah
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Jupiter's large moon, Europa, is covered by a thick crust of ice above a vast ocean of liquid water (Getty Images/Ron Miller/Stocktrek Images)

Jupiter's moon may have secret lakes

Matthew Rozsa
Florida surgeon general Joseph Ladapo speaks at a press conference at the Space Coast Health Foundation in Rockledge, Florida on August 03, 2022 (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Fla. surgeon general's anti-vax warning

Matthew Rozsa
Pollution and pregnancy risk to the unborn fetus as polluted smoke stacks and toxic waste as an environmental danger to a mother and baby (Getty Images/wildpixel)

Air pollution squirrels into the unborn

Troy Farah
Silhouette of a man arguing with a woman (Getty Images)

Probing the mind of an incel

Matthew Rozsa
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